OpenTable

Principal Product Manager, Diner Engagement

OpenTable$130K — $180K *
Food & Beverages
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8 years of experience in product management, primarily for B2C products.
  • Proven negotiation skills with partners on strategic integrations.
  • Experience developing complex product strategies with cross-functional teams.
  • Strong background in defining and executing product success metrics.
  • Expertise in managing marketplace products for web and mobile applications.
  • Experience with multi-million dollar service and enterprise program integrations.
  • Ability to advocate for user experience with senior leadership.
  • Strong technical aptitude for API-driven integrations.

Responsibilities

  • Define product strategy and roadmap to enhance diner engagement with partners.
  • Collaborate with Business Development, Legal, and Finance for partnership opportunities.
  • Manage end-to-end product development using customer insights and data.
  • Work closely with Design and Engineering for intuitive user experiences.
  • Build relationships with external partners and drive alignment on goals.
  • Establish product success metrics and lead experimentation for optimization.
  • Communicate product roadmaps and metrics to executive leadership.

Benefits

  • Generous paid vacation plus time off for your birthday.
  • Work from almost anywhere for up to 20 days per year.
  • Company-paid therapy sessions and subscription to Headspace for mental health.
  • Annual company-wide week off to recharge without work piling up.
  • Paid parental and volunteer time off.
  • Development Dollars for career growth and access to e-learning opportunities.
  • Travel discounts and private health and dental insurance.
  • Employee Resource Groups and life and disability insurance.
Full Job Description
The Opportunity:

OpenTable is seeking a strategic and highly collaborative Principal Product Manager to lead the critical intersection of Diner Engagement and high-profile partnerships. In this high-impact role, you will define the unified product strategy and comprehensive execution roadmap to integrate major strategic partners deeply into our consumer marketplace. Operating at the core of our business development efforts, you will lead the planning, execution and champion OpenTable's and our diners' best interests to scale engagement and capture sustainable ecosystem value.

Your Responsibilities:
  • Define and execute product strategy and roadmap priorities that drive diner engagement and integrate high-profile strategic partners directly into the consumer marketplace ecosystem.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Business Development, Legal and Finance to evaluate and capture high-value enterprise partnership integration opportunities.
  • Own end-to-end product development, leveraging customer insights, data, and experimentation to prioritize investments, measure impact, and continuously optimize outcomes.
  • Partner closely with Design and Engineering to deliver intuitive, high-quality experiences that solve customer problems and delight diners.
  • Build trusted relationships with external partners, influencing decision-making, driving alignment on shared objectives, and effectively advocating for OpenTable's customers, business priorities, and long-term strategy.
  • Establish robust product success metrics and lead rigorous hypothesis-driven experimentation to optimize conversion and user retention across integrated channels.
  • Communicate complex product roadmaps, cross-system trade-offs, and critical program performance metrics directly to executive leadership and key external stakeholders.

Qualifications:
  • 8 years of experience in product management, with a focus on business-to-consumer (B2C) products.
  • Experience negotiating with partners and evaluating strategic partnership trade-off
  • Experience developing and executing complex product strategies in direct collaboration with Business Development, Engineering, Marketing and Legal teams.
  • Experience defining product data success metrics, key performance indicators, and executing robust multi-platform user experimentation frameworks.
  • Expertise managing marketplace product dynamics across scaled web and mobile application ecosystems.
  • Experience managing product strategy for multi-million dollar consumer services, payment networks, or enterprise reward program integrations.
  • Proven ability to negotiate scope and advocate for user experience interests with senior leadership and external enterprise stakeholders.
  • Strong systems-thinking capabilities with a deep technical aptitude for handling API-driven integrations and complex ecosystem trade-offs.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits and Perks
  • Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
  • Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
  • Focus on mental health and well-being:
    • Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
    • Company-paid subscription to Headspace
    • Annual company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid volunteer time
  • Focus on your career growth:
    • Development Dollars
    • Leadership development
    • Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
  • Travel Discounts
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • 20 days of paid time off
  • Private health and dental insurance
  • Life and Disability insurance

We offer a competitive base salary and benefits including: health benefits; flexible spending account; retirement benefits; life insurance; paid time off (including PTO, paid sick leave, medical leave, bereavement leave, floating holidays and paid holidays); and parental leave benefits. This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus and equity grant.

Work Environment & Flexibility

At OpenTable, we pride ourselves on fostering a global and dynamic work environment. As a team member with us, you will benefit from a schedule tailored to accommodate a global workforce operating across multiple time zones. While the majority of your responsibilities may align with conventional business hours, there will be instances where you are expected to manage communications - via calls, Slack messages, or emails - outside of regular working hours to effectively collaborate with international colleagues, respond to restaurant partners, and/or address urgent matters. OpenTable will always abide by and consider local laws and regulations.

About OpenTable

OpenTable is an online restaurant-reservation service company. It provides online reservations at about 54,000 restaurants around the world seating some 30 million diners monthly. The company was founded in San Francisco, California in 1998. Reservations are free to end users; the company charges restaurants monthly and per-reservation fees for their use of the system. In addition to online reservations, OpenTable offers restaurant management software for table management, guest management, and reservation management. OpenTable went public on the NASDAQ in 2009, and in 2014 it was acquired by Priceline Group for $2.6 billion.
Learn more about OpenTable
Size
5,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1998

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